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Delta II A Delta II launch vehicle launches from Cape Canaveral carrying the Dawn spacecraft. Function Launch vehicle Manufacturer United Launch Alliance Country of origin United States Cost per launch US$51 million in 1987 (7920-10 model) US$137 million in 2018 before retirement Size Height 38.9 m (128 ft) Diameter 2.44 m (8 ft 0 in) Mass 152,000–286,000 kg (335,000–631,000 lb) Stages 2 ...
On 14 December 2006, with the launch of USA-193, was the first launch of the Delta II operated by United Launch Alliance. [15] The last GPS launch aboard a Delta II and the final launch from SLC-17A at Cape Canaveral occurred in 2009. The GRAIL Launch in 2011 marked the last Delta II Heavy launch and the last from Florida.
A Delta 2310 was the vehicle for the first three-satellite launch of NOAA-4, Intasat, and AMSAT-OSCAR 7 on 15 November 1974. [citation needed] Delta 2910 boosters were used to launch both Landsat 2 in 1975 and Landsat 3 in 1978. On 7 April 1978, a Delta 2914 launched "Yuri 1", the first Japanese BSE Broadcasting Satellite. [12]
This is a list of launches made by the PGM-17 Thor IRBM, and its derivatives, including the Delta family and the Japanese N-I, N-II and H-I rockets which were based on license-produced components. Due to the number of launches, it has been split by decade: List of Thor and Delta launches (1957–1959) List of Thor and Delta launches (1960–1969)
Delta II 6925-8 CCAFS LC-17B Palapa B2R: GTO: NewSat: Success First commercial Delta II launch, Comsat: 195 June 1, 1990 21:48 Delta II 6920-10 CCAFS LC-17A ROSAT: 2,421 kg LEO: NASA: Success Space telescope: 196 June 12, 1990 05:52 Delta 4925-8: CCAFS LC-17B INSAT 1D: GTO: Success Comsat, Last Delta I launch 197 August 2, 1990 05:39 Delta II ...
GPS IIR-1 or GPS SVN-42 was the first Block IIR GPS satellite to be launched. It was to have been operated as part of the United States Air Force Global Positioning System.It was launched on 17 January 1997, and was destroyed 13 seconds into its flight due to a malfunction of the Delta II launch vehicle that was carrying it. [2]
The U.S. Space Force and a Boeing-Lockheed joint venture sent a secret reconnaissance payload to orbit on Tuesday atop a Delta IV Heavy rocket, the last flight of a workhorse launch vehicle brand ...
Thor was a US space launch vehicle derived from the PGM-17 Thor intermediate-range ballistic missile. The Thor rocket was the first member of the Delta rocket family of space launch vehicles. The last launch of a direct derivative of the Thor missile occurred in 2018 as the first stage of the final Delta II.